KRONOS 46, southern African histories, November 2020, special edition: Other lives of the Image

304pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2020

Kronos: southern African histories is an accredited open access journal published annually by the Department of History and the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.

Contributions include:

"The Phototextual Emergence of Hysteria: from the Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière to J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man" by Iona Gilburt

"Attempted Portraits: photography, obscurity, and the articulation of the past" by Christopher Morton 

"Theorising the Image as Act: reading the social and political in images of the rural Eastern Cape" by Candice Steele

"An Openness to Experiment: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's anthropological field photography in rural southern Angola and its archival reusages" by Inês Ponte

"Atlas of an Empire: photographic narrations and the visual struggle for Mozambique" by Rui Assubuji

Patricia Hayes is DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities, University of the Western Cape. She is co-editor with Gary Minkley of Ambivalent: photography and visibility in African history.

Iona Gilburt is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities, University of the Western Cape.